Sadness: Our Bible Reading Mentality Leads to Bondage

Yeah, it's this sound-byte proof-text mentality that has both been foisted on us and we've duly accepted. We take one verse, without the context of the verses surrounding it, nor the context of God's promised or finished work, to prove whatever rivulet of thought comes streaming into our minds from who knows where. And then when Christ, our freedom in Him, our relationship to Him, and the utter passion and love of the Father for us comes against some of our pet out-of-context verse doctrines we fear and flail and run to one who simply knows a great deal of verses and they comfort us as they put the chains of legalism and division around our necks, verse after every san-contextual verse.